Going away or on a road trip just to eat at as many restaurants as possible is part culture, part adventure and, most of all, absolutely delicious. Experience everything from bite-sized excursions to gastronomic wanderings.

Major metropolitan hubs are known to house exceptional culinary institutions. RewardExpert, a free service that helps travelers fly for cheap by maximizing their miles and points, ranked the best foodie towns in the U.S.

The report compares 100 cities and towns with fewer than 100,000 people and evaluates them on nine key metrics. The ranking breaks down the top five foodie destinations across six major geographical regions in the country.